Tales from Nirn: Silt Strider

Getting in

How to join

Five steps, and thankfully the launcher does most of them. Depending on your network speeds, you're looking at about 30 minutes for the required install, mostly in download time.

Before you start

  • To be 18 or over. Silt Strider is an 18+ server and there are no exceptions. See the rules.
  • A legitimate copy of Morrowind, Game of the Year edition. Steam or GOG both work. We do not distribute the game itself, only the mods and the client.
  • Windows or Linux. There is a build for each, both linked in step 2.
  • Disk space. The Lite pack is about 11.7 GB of mods, and Overhaul is about 47.5 GB. Neither figure includes Morrowind itself, so leave headroom on top.
  • A Discord account. Downloads are gated behind server membership, see step 1.
Why the Discord gate? The pack contains several hundred third-party mods. Handing that out to the open internet is not something we have the rights to do, so the launcher only issues download access to people who are actually here to play on the server.

The steps

  1. Join the Discord

    Come into the server Discord and read the Server Guide and installation channel.

  2. Download the launcher

    Grab the build for your platform, a zip on Windows and a tarball on Linux. Unpack it somewhere with room to work, such as its own folder on a drive with space, and not inside your Morrowind install. Both are pinned in the installation channel on Discord as well.

    You do not need to hunt for the newest build. The launcher updates itself when it starts, so whichever copy you have will pull the current version on the next run.

    Windows · zip, 60 MB Linux · tar.gz, 110 MB

    Updated: November 6, 2026

  3. Point it at your Morrowind install

    On first run the launcher asks where Morrowind lives. It reads the original data files from there and leaves them alone. Nothing is written back into your Steam or GOG copy.

  4. Let it pull the pack

    You sign in with Discord once, the launcher checks your role, and then it downloads the mod pack and our client. This is the slow part. The Lite tier is the default; Overhaul is opt-in and roughly four times the download.

  5. Connect

    Hit play. The launcher points the client at the live server for you, so there is no address to type in under normal circumstances.

Server addresses

You should not normally need these, since the launcher fills them in. They are here for when something goes wrong and someone in Discord asks you to connect by hand.

Live
play.siltstrider.com
Development
dev.siltstrider.com
The development server is not the one you want. It runs unfinished builds, it gets restarted without warning, and characters there are not guaranteed to survive. Play on the live server unless someone has specifically asked you to test something.

If it goes wrong

The launcher says you are not authorised

That means Discord did not properly authenticate you. Check you are still in the server, and if you are, please post in the technical-help channel.

The download keeps stopping

Large transfers over a flaky connection are the usual cause. The launcher can resume, so start it again rather than deleting anything. If it fails in the same place repeatedly, say so in Discord with the file it stopped on.

It launches but you cannot connect

Usually a version mismatch after a pack update. Run the launcher again and let it update before connecting. If it still fails, the server may simply be down, which gets announced in Discord.

Playing is free and it stays that way. There is a Patreon if you want to help with the running costs. It has tiers only so people can give whatever suits them, and every tier gets the same thing: a colour in Discord, and access to the development server to help test features and find bugs. Nothing on it changes the game you play, and it never will.

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